Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 579 President quotesPresident QuotesPresident Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists -- and every government that supports them.~ George W. Bush We have every reason to assume the worst.~ George W. Bush I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want -- I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.~ George W. Bush And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.~ George W. Bush Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.~ George W. Bush There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.~ George W. Bush Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.~ George W. Bush Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.~ George W. Bush The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace.~ George W. Bush We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.~ George W. Bush There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there [in Iraq]. My answer is, 'Bring 'em on.' ~ George W. Bush There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.~ George W. Bush I don’t give a goddamn. I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ... Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!~ George W. Bush We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.~ George W. Bush To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...~ John C. Calhoun America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.~ Jimmy Carter The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.~ Jimmy Carter The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.~ Jimmy Carter The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.~ William Ellery Channing The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print